[00:00 - 01:43] Hey everyone, welcome to the new line guide for building your first GraphQL server with no JS and TypeScripts. In this short video, we'll give a quick introduction as to what this course contains and the different lessons you'll go through. Now, this course is intended to web developers who are either new to some of the technologies we'll talk about or who are new to any of the technologies we actually cover. This course is around three modules or three chapters in length, which equates to about 23 lessons in total. And this is equivalent to about two and a half hours of visual content. In our very first module is when we get started with our server. We'll introduce node, explain how node is different to other web server technologies. We'll create a server with the help of the popular express package, introduce static typing with TypeScript and conclude the module by creating a get and post route within our server to mimic how restful APIs are to usually behave. In module two is when we compare the difference between restful APIs and GraphQL APIs. GraphQL is a query language for APIs that was originally created to help client side applications dictate the data they need before they request it. In module two, we'll explain what GraphQL is, compare a rest and GraphQL API of a production setting and we'll use GitHub's official production APIs to do so. And finally, we'll dive deeper into some of the core concepts of GraphQL. In module three, we'll move towards building our own GraphQL API.

[01:44 - 02:05] Now, one thing to always keep in mind is that GraphQL is a specification, not a direct implementation. And this means GraphQL can be implemented in many different programming languages. In our case, we're going to use the Apollo server package to create our GraphQL API from our node server.

[02:06 - 02:54] In module three, we'll install Apollo server and the GraphQL JavaScript library . We'll create a GraphQL schema, build GraphQL resolver functions to interact with our market data, and finally recreate our schema with the much simpler GraphQL schema language. Everything we've talked about just now will be reiterated as you go from module to module and lesson to lesson. At any moment in time, if you have a question, you'll find a link to the Discord channel at the top of this lesson documentation shared below. Feel free to hop onto the channel and ask us any questions you might come across and we'll be sure to respond and help you out. We hope you you enjoy the course and we'll see you in the next lesson.

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